A screenshot of the owner’s Instagram showing Fifi bedding down in business class A Hong Kong dog has become an online sensation after a video of the pampered pooch on a business class flight from Hong Kong to Istanbul went viral. In the video, the miniature long-haired dachshund named Fifi is seen snuggled under blankets.British owner Helen Rosalie, who adopted the miniature long-haired dachshund in Hong Kong when the dog was one year old, she’s now four, said Fifi was “calm and collected” throughout the 11-hour flight, according to the South China Morning Post.While Fifi looked comfortable, many online observers…
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By AFP  March 18, 2023 | 07:28am GMT+7 Jewelry from the Angkor period during a ceremony held to unveil a collection of stolen Angkorian artifacts at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh. Photo by Kok Ky/Cambodia’s Government Cabinet/Handout via AFP Cambodian leader Hun Sen unveiled a collection of stolen Angkor crown jewelry on Friday which was recently returned to the kingdom after decades in Britain, pleading for other long-lost treasures to be handed back. Gold crowns, necklaces and amulets were among the trove of treasures from the Angkor period, which ran from the ninth to 14th centuries AD when the…
“I’M BACK,” Trump exclaimed, alongside a 12-second video clip that appeared to show him giving his victory speech after winning the 2016 election saying: “Sorry to keep you waiting — complicated business.”The 76-year-old Republican leader — who is running for president again — has been unable to post any content for his 34 million Facebook followers and 2.6 million YouTube subscribers.The platforms benched Trump days after the January 6, 2021 insurrection, when a mob of his supporters seeking to halt the certification of his election defeat to Joe Biden stormed the US Capitol in Washington.He was sanctioned for posting content…
The code used for recommending the posts suggested to users will become “open source” at the end of March, Musk said in a tweet of his own.”People will discover many silly things, but we’ll patch issues as soon as they’re found!” Musk tweeted.”Providing code transparency will be incredibly embarrassing at first, but it should lead to rapid improvement in recommendation quality.”Musk contended that the recommendation algorithm used at Twitter is overly complicated and not fully understood inside the company.”We’re developing a simplified approach to serve more compelling tweets, but it’s still a work in progress,” Musk said.Making the code open…
By Reuters  March 18, 2023 | 07:26am GMT+7 Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha campaigns as Prime Minister candidate for the United Thai Nation Party (Ruam Thai Sang Chart Party) ahead of a general election this year in Bangkok, Thailand, January 9, 2023. Photo by Reuters/Chalinee Thirasupa Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Friday he had prepared a decree seeking to dissolve parliament ahead of an election, an expected step as his government heads into the last week of its four-year term. The decree would require approval of Thailand’s monarch and would take effect once published in the Royal Gazette.…
By Reuters  March 18, 2023 | 07:26am GMT+7 Huawei logo. Photo by Reuters Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s founder said that the company has replaced more than 13,000 parts in its products that were hit by US trade sanctions, according to a transcript of a speech posted on Friday by a Chinese university. According to the transcript posted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei said Huawei had over the past three years replaced the 13,000 components with domestic Chinese substitutes and had redesigned 4,000 circuit boards for it products. He said production of circuit boards had “stabilized.”The remarks,…
By Reuters  March 18, 2023 | 07:16am GMT+7 The reconstructed wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. Photo by Reuters The United Nations aviation council on Friday voted to hear a case against Russia over the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, the foreign ministers of Australia and the Netherlands said. Australia and the Netherlands initiated the action over MH17 last year at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The passenger jet was struck over rebel-held eastern Ukraine by what international investigators and prosecutors say was a Russian-made surface-to-air missile, killing all 298 people on board.Australia has said Russia was…
By Reuters  March 18, 2023 | 12:36am GMT+7 Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a video conference with a group of award-winning teachers at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia, October 5, 2022. Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov/Kremlin via REUTERS The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant on Friday against Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of being responsible for illegal deportation of children from Ukraine. The Kremlin branded the court decision as “null and void” with respect to Russia.Neither Russia not Ukraine are members of the ICC, but Kyiv granted it jurisdiction to prosecute crimes committed on its…
China’s last Qing emperor’s watch is going up for auction. Photo by Phillips A Patek Philippe watch owned by the last emperor of China’s Qing dynasty will come to auction later this year. Based on similar sales in the past, it could very easily gavel for a price in the seven figures, according to The South China Morning Post.Aisin-Gioro Puyi, crowned in 1908 when he wasn’t quite 3 years old, had to abdicate the throne in 1912 during the Chinese Revolution. He was allowed to retain his title and continued to live lavishly in the palace until 1924, when he…
By Reuters  March 17, 2023 | 03:48pm GMT+7 Workers strike, after German trade union Verdi called on workers at Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Dortmund, Hanover and Bremen airports to go on a 24-hour strike, in Frankfurt, Germany February 17, 2023. Photo by Reuters Strikes at four German airports led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights on Friday in the latest bout of industrial action to disrupt travel plans in recent months. German union Verdi called on security and ground handling staff at airports in Duesseldorf, Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart and Baden-Baden to strike over pay and working conditions.Cologne/Bonn Airport said that…